“The American Revolution was not a common event. Its effects
and consequences have already been awful over a great part of
the globe. _And when and where are they to cease?_”[380]
The prophetic spirit which filled the “visions” of youth continued
in the “dreams” of age. Especially was he constant in foreseeing the
widening reach of the great Revolution he had helped at its beginning;
and this arrested the attention of his eloquent eulogist at Faneuil
Hall.[381]